Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Minister for Transport and Regional Services) Share this | Hansard source

You did it there too, did you? Then I would have hoped that you might have read my response, because I noted that you were not in the House yesterday when I outlined what we are doing to ensure that foreign flag vessels are appropriately checked and that appropriate security arrangements are in place.

I will not take the time of the committee to repeat what I said yesterday, but I invite honourable members who have concerns about that issue to read the Hansard record. However, the honourable member did raise a second issue, which I did not refer to yesterday, and that is the single voyage permits. The issue of single voyage permits is not something that was invented by this government; it has been around for a very long period of time.

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